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In what many considered to be a shocking and embarrassing breach of decorum, a Republican House Member, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouted “You lie” at President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress Wednesday. Democrats AND Republicans were quick to call out his eruption (bipartisanship at last!), and Wilson himself was quick to issue an apology. But on the strange world of the Internet, Joe Wilson’s scene appears to have made him an instant hero.

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“The time for bickering is over. The time for games have passed.” President Obama struck a tough tone tonight in his address to a joint session of Congress about Health Care — and got a little of that back courtesy of a heckle from Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who shouted out “You lie!” during Obama’s speech, succeeding in getting himself in the first graf of pretty much every story on the matter.